A few days ago I've got a small parcel from Ral Partha Europe. Inside I have found some blisters with miniatures produced by this company. I'd like to review some of them, made in 15 mm scale. All blisters I've got in this scale contains fantasy miniatures, designed to be used with Ral Partha own 15 mm mass battle ruleset "DemonWorld". Figures comes packed in clear plastic zip-bags, containing paper leaflet with the name of the ruleset and small label with miniatures' name and number of figures inside. This is a little misleading, as - for example - blister with giant scorpion - is labelled as two person pack, as this monster has two goblins as crew. But, generally speaking, it gives a good measure of number of "assembled" miniatures inside. UPDATE: Stupid me... I don't know what I thought... Label on giant scorpion is perfectly clear - it reads as "Goblin Grancroid Giant Scorpion" - without number of persons per pack, as it should be, so everything is perfectly ok. Sorry for that mistake.

First of the bags contains a monster labelled as "Goblin Grancroid Giant Scorpion". I was really suprised how huge this thing is. It is REALLY big - especially for 15 mm scale. It can be used, I think, in 28 mm scale too, as a "young" giant scorpion for example. Miniature comes in numerous parts - two for torso, two pincers, tail with giant sting, all legs casted as separate pieces and two goblins for crew. I'm sure that this miniature will look absolutely fabulous when assembled and painted.

Second blister is labelled as "Wood Elf Personalities" and contains six heroes of this race. Two of them are on foot, one is mounted on the unicorn, one on the pegasus and two of them rides horses. There are also two separate lances, they are designed to fit to specific heroes (details on arms match details on some heroes). Every miniature has some distinctive features - be it a sorceress riding the unicorn, foot shaman of sort with giant claws attached to arms, knights and warriors riding barder horses (two different designs too).Last blister contains just one miniature - wizard labelled as Gandagor the Grey. Robes, staff, beard... well, it looks to me as certain other The Grey wizard;)All figures are slightly bigger then true 15 mm scale, they measure about 18 mm to the eyes line. All of them are very nicely casted, with mould lines being practically invisible, without other imperfections or traces of mould overusage. If I had to compare them to some other companies' miniatures, I would say that they are on par with historical Xyston's better miniatures. These Ral Partha's figures are, simply, very nice. Bodies are very proportional, with heads, hands and feet of correct size. They look very natural. All of them are nicely detailed too - from ornaments on robes, to details of weapons and equipment. These are, for certain, one of the best looking 15 mm scale miniatures I have ever seen.(In addition to photos of unpainted miniatures made by myself, I'd like to show photos of painted ones too. They are coming from Ral Partha Europe website and present official samples).